Binding an Appliance to a Network at Point of Purchase

1. A computer-implemented method of binding appliance data, comprising: receiving, at a server, appliance identification information entered at a terminal, the terminal located at a point of purchase for the appliance; identifying appliance data stored at the server used on the appliance identification information; binding the appliance data to a home energy manager installed at a premises where the appliance is to be installed; receiving one or more inquiries from the home energy manager to determine whether a new appliance has been identified, the one or more inquiries being provided by the home energy manager on a periodic basis; and transmitting the appliance data to the home energy manager based at least in part on the one or more inquiries from the home energy manager to determine whether a new appliance has been identified.

2. The method as in claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises authenticating communications between the terminal and the server.

3. The method as in claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises associating appliance identification information with user data stored at the server.

4. The method as in claim 1 , wherein binding appliance data to a home energy manager comprises: identifying the home energy manager installed at the premises where the appliance is to be installed; identifying a source of the appliance data at the server; and providing a path to bind the source of the appliance data at the server with the home ever manager installed at the premises where the appliance is to be installed.

5. The method as in claim 4 , wherein the path to bind the source of the appliance data at the server with the home energy manager is provided via a data write to a uniform resource identifier (URI) in a URI tree stored at the server.

6. The method as in claim 4 , wherein the home energy manager is identified based at least in part on user data stored at the server.

7. The method as in claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises receiving, at the home energy manager, an indication that the appliance has been installed; and transmitting the appliance data from the home energy manager to the appliance over a network.

8. The method as in claim 1 , wherein binding the appliance data to a home energy manager installed at a premises where the appliance is to be installed is initiated prior to installation of the appliance at the premises.

9. A computing system configured to bind appliance data, the computing system comprising a server having one or more processor(s) and a computer-readable medium storing instructions for execution by the processor to cause the processor to perform operations, the operations comprising: receiving, at the server, appliance identification information entered at a terminal, the terminal located at a point of purchase for the appliance; identifying appliance data stored at the server based on the appliance identification information; binding the appliance data to a home energy manager installed at a premises where the appliance is to be installed; receiving, at the server, one or more inquiries from the home energy manager to determine whether a new appliance has been identified, the one or more inquiries being provided by the home energy manager on a periodic basis; and transmitting the appliance data to the home energy manager based at least in part on the one or more inquiries from the home energy manager to determine whether a new appliance has been identified.

10. The computing system of claim 9 , wherein the operations further comprises associating appliance identification information with user data stored at the server.

11. The computing system of claim 9 , wherein the operation of binding appliance data to a home energy manager comprises: identifying the home energy manager installed at the premises where the appliance is to be installed; identifying a source of the appliance data in the memory of the computing device; and providing a path to bind the source of the appliance data in the memory of the computing device with the home energy manager installed at the premises where the appliance is to be installed.

12. The computing system as in claim 11 , wherein the path to bind the source of the appliance data at the server with the home energy manager is provided via a data write to a uniform resource identifier (URI) in a URI tree stored at the server.